"Why not!"

Gu Yuan was so devastated by Xu Huimei's words that he fell to the ground and rolled around. He didn't stop until Xue Jiayu "promised" to be his sister.

After watching "Basketball Pioneer", it was already dark.

Xu Huimei cleaned up the dishes, and Xue Jiayu and Zhan Nanqi left Gu's house together.

"Brother Nanqi, I apologize to you on behalf of Xiaoyu. She is sometimes willful, but she doesn't mean it. So don't be angry with her."

Xue Jiayu tilted her head and smiled at Zhan Nanqi.

Zhan Nanqi stopped and looked at her.

Thinking that he didn't want to agree, Xue Jiayu took Zhan Nanqi's arm and acted coquettishly, "Brother Nanqi, please be magnanimous and stop arguing with Xiaoyu, okay? If you are angry, take it out on me."

He raised his hand suddenly, scaring Xue Jiayu so much that she took a big step back and stared at him with wide eyes.

"Brother Nanqi, what are you going to do?"

Zhan Nanqi stretched out his arm and tapped her forehead lightly.

“…”

Xue Jiayu stood there in a daze, unable to react, but Zhan Nanqi had already walked home.

It was not until she saw him walk into the house that Xue Jiayu realized that Zhan Nanqi was just venting his anger.

Brother Nanqi is so... cute!

Xue Jiayu was in a good mood and returned home humming a song.

Ying Huanyu was still waiting for Xue Jiayu to come back and coax her, but when she saw Xue Jiayu coming back in a good mood, her face became even more frowned.

Only then did Xue Jiayu stop smiling and moved closer to Ying Huanyu to coax her.

"Xiaoyu, I'm back. Have you eaten?"

"What should I eat?" Ying Huanyu deliberately showed a pitiful look, "Grandma didn't cook at all when she saw you were not at home. I was so hungry that I drank several glasses of water, but you didn't care about me. You must have come back full, right?"

"I--"

Xue Jiayu was indeed very full. She lowered her head and touched her stomach embarrassedly, "Xiaoyu, don't be angry. I'll find you some bread, okay?"

Bread was a rare commodity, a piece of it was worth a pound of meat, and there were not many places selling it. Xue Wangjun bought some twice, and both children loved it very much.

But Ying Huanyu felt jealous again because she hadn't seen Xue Wangjun buy bread recently.

"Dad lets you eat alone, right? I knew it, all the good things in the house are hidden away for you to eat alone!"

"No, no!" Xue Jiayu explained quickly, "Didn't dad buy a small loaf of bread for each of us last time? I couldn't bear to eat it, so I put it in my cupboard. I'll get it for you."

As he spoke, Xue Jiayu pulled Ying Huanyu upstairs to find some bread. Only when he saw Xue Jiayu carefully take out the bread from the cupboard did Ying Huanyu's expression look better.

"Is it delicious?" Xue Jiayu licked her lips. The aroma of bread kept coming into her nose, arousing her appetite.

Ying Huanyu took a bite of the palm-sized bread and nodded, "It smells good. Sister, you eat it too."

She handed the remaining half piece of bread to Xue Jiayu's mouth. Xue Jiayu swallowed and pushed her hand back.

"You eat. I'm not hungry. I just had a big plate of fried dumplings at Aunt Huimei's house."

"oh!"

Ying Huanyu finished her meal happily, partly because she had bread to eat, and partly because Xue Jiayu coaxed her, and she finally felt happy.

But this happiness did not last long. After Ying Huanyu finished eating, she questioned Xue Jiayu again about not helping her.

"Sister, why didn't you speak up for me at that time?"

Xue Jiayu smiled bitterly in her heart. Ying Huanyu was not as easy to coax as Zhan Nanqi. She couldn't be fooled by acting cute and coquettish.

"Isn't Brother Nanqi sick? So it's normal to give in to him a little."

"You give in to him in more than one way." Ying Huanyu pouted, "I think you like him more than me!"

Xue Jiayu was too guilty to refute, and Ying Huanyu seemed to have caught her by the hair and said excitedly: "Sister, you really like him more!"

Ying Huanyu felt as if facing a formidable enemy, and kept telling Xue Jiayu, "We are a family, Zhan Nanqi is an outsider," "Zhan Nanqi can't treat you better than I do," and "Sister, you must love me more."

After being brainwashed for more than half an hour, Xue Jiayu's ears were almost callused. In the end, she was forced to swear that she must love her sister the most, and only then did Ying Huanyu let her go.

Xue Wangjun and his wife happened to come home. Seeing her tired face, they asked hurriedly, "Xiaobao, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine..."

Ying Huanyu took the opportunity to show his courtesy and took the initiative to pour them some water.

"Mom and Dad, drink some water."

Jiang Qiuyu took the water and praised her for being sensible.

Ying Huanyu massaged Jiang Qiuyi's shoulders and casually mentioned, "Mom, today the teacher asked me why I don't have the same last name as my sister, and I didn't know how to answer."

Her voice became smaller and smaller, with obvious grievance and loss in her voice.

Ying Huanyu had long known that she was not the biological daughter of the Xue family.

Occasionally when she returned to the village, she heard jokes from the villagers and Xu Suzhen's undisguised favoritism. Jiang Qiuyu and Xue Wangjun talked openly about the whereabouts of her biological mother.

At these times, Ying Huanyu could only pretend to be dumb and pretend not to understand, otherwise once the matter was carefully traced, her identity in the Xue family would be very embarrassing. However, her classmates also heard about this matter from somewhere. The children were not defensive and always said in front of her that she was not as pretty as Xue Jiayu and did not look like a real sister at all.

Jiang Qiuyi comforted him casually: "The teacher is just asking casually, they won't care about these."

"But my classmates also said that my sister and I don't look like real sisters—" Ying Huanyu pouted.

Xue Wangjun said casually, "You didn't..."

Xue Jiayu sensed that her father was about to let something slip, so she quickly shouted, "Dad!"

[This is terrible. If Huanyu knew her identity, wouldn't she repeat the same mistake?! This matter must be kept secret!]

Hearing his daughter's thoughts, Xue Wangjun quickly changed his tone, "Oh, I see. Dad will change your name someday. From now on, you'll be called Xue Huanyu."

"Okay, okay!"

Ying Huanyu massaged Xue Wangjun's shoulders more actively, but Jiang Qiuyu looked somewhat displeased.

It was not until the couple returned to their room at night that Jiang Qiuyu expressed her thoughts.

"We originally agreed that the Xue family can only have Xiaobao as their child. If Huanyu's last name is changed to Xue, then what's the point of calling her the only child?"

Xue Wangjun scratched his head. He really hadn't expected this.

"But I can't change what I promised the child, and Xiaobao also hopes that we can treat her as a family member, right?"

"Don't we treat her as a family now? She has a share of everything Xiaobao has, and we go to the same school. What else do you want?"

Jiang Qiuyi applied skin care products on her face, "Anyway, I don't agree with her last name being Xue."

"Then...how about taking your last name Jiang?"

Xue Wangjun racked his brains to come up with a compromise.

Jiang Qiuyu was even more unwilling.

"Xiaobao is also the only child in the Jiang family. Besides, my feelings for Huanyu are not enough to let her take my surname."